Originally Posted by
Betty Ruth
I'm glad to see someone admit to using odd colors of thread. I have an abundance of all colors of thread given to me by a man whose wife had died. I've been using that thread where it doesn't show. I can't bear to spend $2.00 or more for a spool of thread when I have hundreds of spools of different colors at home.
I just dismantled 70 ten-inch squares that had been sewn with red and/or white thread. I could not tell from the front which color thread had been used. I used to be very matchy matchy with thread colors when I did piecing. Now it doesn't really seem to matter very much!